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Lucy digested all this information, continuing to press tea on her information. Finally, reluctantly, Mrs. Kidder rose to her feet.
"Seem to have got along a treat, we do, this morning, she said wonderingly. Want me to give you a hand with the potatoes, dear?"
"They're all done ready."
"Well, you are a one for getting on with things! I might as well be getting along myself as there doesn't seem anything else to do."
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Mrs. Kidder departed and Lucy, with time on her hands, scrubbed the kitchen table which she had been longing to do, but which she had put off so as not to offend Mrs. Kidder whose job it properly was. Then she cleaned the silver till it shone radiantly. She cooked lunch, cleared it away, washed it up, and at two-thirty was ready to start exploration. She had set out the tea things ready on a tray, with sandwiches and bread and butter covered with a damp napkin to keep them moist.
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